• A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

    James Hogg: A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
    James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack (1995). “The shepherd's calendar”, Edinburgh Univ Pr